Bath-time Play: How to Make Non-toxic Bath Crayons

Bath time is one of my kid’s favorite activity. They are drawn to any activity where water is involved, whether they’re wearing a bathing suit, clothes or they’re naked. If there’s water, they are the first to get in.

I think their love for bath time is partly because I’ve always tried to make bath time fun: we have a good selection of non-toxic bath toys we rotate, we also play fun activities and recently we started experimenting with bath crayons. Let me tell you, they love it!

I can’t believe it took me so long to try this out!

This activity is not only perfect for kids that love taking baths but also for kids that are a little hesitant about bath time. This will keep them so entertained they won’t mind taking a bath and getting clean.

My youngest doesn’t like when I’m putting soap on her so I usually do that when she’s busy drawing on our bathroom walls with these crayons. The best is that since you’re making these you know what’s in them and you don’t have to worry about using products with questionable ingredients.

Hi Eliza, there are two reasons for that. 1- You will probably melt more soap than you need to use and this way you can save the leftover soap for another project, if you add in the oil you can’t really save that for something else. 2- You don’t want to heat up oils so if you mix them right away you might lose some of the grapeseed oil properties, by adding it later on, your soap will be cool enough so it won’t affect the oil properties.

I made these the other day, but I think I used too much food coloring. Do you have issues with the crayons turning the bath water colors. My daughter’s bath water was so gross looking because of the colors bleeding that I had to drain and refill the bath tube before washing her.

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